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No Auto IP Retrieval

microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking sharing

In Vista Home Basic I always have to do a "Diagnose and Repair" to force
Vista to retrieve the I.P. address from my Netgear WPN824 router. This was
never required under WinXP so I'm wondering why Vista never does this on it's
own.

Is there a way to force Vista into automatically getting the I.P. address
from the router?

"Alias" <Alias@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:82DA3A61-5495-41D3-81E4-BE4649AB9259@microsoft.com...
> Hello all,
>
> In Vista Home Basic I always have to do a "Diagnose and Repair" to force
> Vista to retrieve the I.P. address from my Netgear WPN824 router. This
> was
> never required under WinXP so I'm wondering why Vista never does this on
> it's
> own.
>
> Is there a way to force Vista into automatically getting the I.P. address
> from the router?
>
> -A

Doesn't this seem like one of the stupidest new "features" of Vista?
Shouldn't a computer be able to connect easily to /any/ network?

However, Alias' problem might not be related to KB928233. I have a Win2K
Server that provides DHCP to the network, and a Vista Biz machine (surely
they knew that we would shorten it to that, right?) is the only one that
can't get an address, but works great with a static address. Still
researching...